Observe Lindsey Olivares' illustrated and animated life at lindseysillustratedlife.tumblr.com.

Early concept art of a potential title sequence for Madagascar 3 by Lindsey Olivares. Nice use of aerial views and watercolour to show the beautiful landscape of Africa.

There's more at in The Art of Madagascar 3.

A reader Karen Agerbo Bennetzen just informed me of a Kickstarter project she's working on called The Reward - Tales of Alethrion. The Reward is the title of a nine-minute graduation short film directed by Mikkel Mainz Elkjær and Kenneth Ladekjær. They are now trying to raise funds to turn the short into an animated series.

Check out their Kickstarter page for more details: https://kck.st/ZsMKBW

And this is the 9 minute short:

Here's the unofficial ending of Disney's Paperman from CollegeHumor.

Great songs to be found from GuitarCenterTV Youtube channel!

Just crossed the 800 mark for reviews on Amazon. There should be over 1000 reviews on the blog since I don't publish all reviews on Amazon.

Wow.

Can't imagine I've went through so many books over the years. And I can't imagine there are so many artbooks and picture books to review on such regular basis.

Thanks to all readers for following the blog and throwing me Amazon votes, and of course buying stuff through the blog.

Thanks.